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Here's the deep dive into stepped exhaust headers. https://www.performanceracing.com/magazine/columns/03-01-2023/pri-tech-stepped-pipes-vs-straight-pipes

Same here! I asked why; I was told to prevent giving away the location of the vehicle, should someone be able to hack into the vehicle registration database. I know there are automatic tag readers on certain police cars, and the tag I had on the Quota from 2024, had a bar code. So it is very probable that in some kind of dystopian future, tags will have an NFD chip included. It is more and more complicated to remain anonymous in any case.

This is academically correct. But 2000 was mostly celebrated as the start of the third.

OEM rims on the Quota were made by Excel.

Congrats! I have sold cars and motorcycles, but (almost) always with a pang of regret. We keep most of ours for years and hundreds of thousands of miles. My '98 EV, bought as a new leftover in 2000, has 108K miles, and would have many more if I had not had dalliances and affairs with others along the way ... although several of those are still in my moto-harem down in the snowed-in Moto Grappa. At risk of offering even more evidence of my pedantry, was not the year 2000 the last year of the second millennium, and thus not the first year of the third? Best wishes from the frozen top of Virginia, Bill P.S. I like the way you don't mask your tags. It always interests me when folks do that.

You know just as these disasters bring out the very best in people....unfortunately they also bring out the very worst too!

Well , the intro to Thunderstruck would be tolerable .....maybe ?

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PM sent! Thanks

As for first year of the new century and, in this instance, millennium, I pleaded guilty to pedantry. and am awaiting findings and sentencing. WRT to vehicle tags, there's a long thread on the issue here: https://advrider.com/f/threads/why-do-people-cover-their-license-plates.1516730/ Quibblingly yours, Bill

Were the holes in the lower portion of the fairing? California Scientific has a good sized hole in the lower center of some of their aftermarket fairings. I talked to a few guys at John Day that had them on their Stelvios. They were very happy with them. They said it equalizes pressure and prevents buffeting.

Some thieves are now targeting people that have moved to hotels, as many have taken with them some valuable items. Maybe with some inside complicity, as to who recently moved. When you thought it could not get worse, then you get reminded that you can expect nothing good from anybody.

The governing factor in the case of a 90 degree V twin with regards to the exhaust scavenging is the point of cross section dia of the secondary pipe. So the first major cross sectional change is what generates the negative pressure pulse. In multi cylinder engines they combine this with the collector shape so the designated cylinders "talk to each other" as well. This is a Ducati Corse 888 "spaghetti" exhaust. The small short link pipes between the front and rear cylinders primary role is to create the large cross sectional change in pipe dia to generate the negative pressure wave to help with cylinder evacuation and subsequent filling. It's not there specifically for splitting the exhaust flow to both mufflers. Thats a secondary benefit. There are two link pipes and the second one is obscured but you can see it's retaining spring underneath. Phil

That is funny . Also thank you for being the interpreter !

Welcome @XELOS17! In addition to sourcing the selector spring from @Scud, perform Lucky_Phil's shift improvement:

And it would have been true... Listen to God Save the Queen played on a Benetton Renault F1 engine!

It was about a dozen clicks from a blank diagram to a printed piece. I just did this to see what it was like. About an hour to print out. Next will be to start getting actual dimensions.